Obituary, Queensland Times July 1980
It is farewell to Coast pioneer Dolly Neill
Another link with the pioneer history of the Sunshine coast faded into the years with the death of Mrs Dolly Nina Neill of Landsborough on July 23, 1980.
In 1918 she married William Neill in Gympie. The young couple came to Beerburrum, then the new SoldiersĂ­ Settlement for returning veterans of World War I. William Neill worked on the railway line.
Six children were born. All were born at home, excepting twins born in the Beerburrum Hospital which wa then situated on the lower slopes of the Beerburrum Mountain.
The family went to live at Morayfield in 1933 and came to Landsborough in 1938, first living in the Railway Gate House about a kilometre north of Landsborough railway station.
William Neill died on September 5, 1961. Mrs Neill lived in Landsborough and was known and loved as a pioneer identity.
She is survived by one son, Jack Neill of Ipswich and three daughters, Jean (Mrs â€śAussieâ€ť Neucom, Landsborough), Marion (Mrs R Rossow, Landsborough) and Avis (Mrs D Neucom, Toorbul), 23 grand-children and 22 great grand-children.
The story of her birth and childhood brings the wild atmosphere of the Jimna and Gympie goldfields to the printed page.
She told it on September 13, 1975. Here is the story from those distant years.

George Whittington, from Kent, England and his wife also from Kent, set out from the Jimna goldfields, on horseback, in the last days of October 1895, bound for Gympie Hospital. Mrs Whittington was expecting a baby.
On November 1 1895 they stopped to boil the billy at a creek known as Umama Creek, near Amamoor some miles south-west of Gympie.
In the solitude of the Queensland bush Dolly Whittington was born on the creek bed.
George Whittington obtained a buggy and horses from Mrs Fitzpatrick of Amamoor and set out for Gympie.
A twin boy was born in the buggy on the way to Gympie. He was stillborn.
Subsequently the family returned to Jimna where George had a small steam driven battery stamper. It was not much of a success and finally the Whittington family left the Jimna Diggings and set up a small grocery store in Moore.